I lost my job at the end of summer last year.  Shortly before the pre-season started (see where this is going?).  All year Nucks Misconduct and has been a cool place to divert some of the oodles of time i've had.  It helps that everyone here is pretty cool and talking hockey here is like talking hockey with your buds as opposed to most places where all the comments seem to be written by angry 12 year old boys.  So, thanks everyone for giving me a club to hang out in that didn't cost me any membership fees!  I started a new gig today, but it doesn't mean I'm going to not being hanging out here calling bullshit, learning and disseminating, and even occasionally (frequently?) pissing people off.  Special props to the actual NM team, Sean, Yankee, Waach and Missy for being good, humorous and humble writers.  Maybe this is cheeseball but I'm a cheeseball guy, and it's true, NM has given me a small bit of focus these past several months.

Japers rink had an interesting post about putting up Niklas Backstrom as a Selke finalist by comparing his numbers with last years top five.  I thought these were interesting stats, and I would like to see some other canucks, particularly Burrows and Hank fit in there.  Anyone know where to find these stats?  I'm not a real stats guy so have no clue past nhl.com, which of course doesn't show most of these.  After the jump is the chart Japers Rink had.

Edit* never mind, found them.  Added Burrows and Henrik Sedin, just outta curiosity...

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It's simple, really. 

    1:  Kiprusoff stand on his head and shut out the Americans, except for the crazy awesome goal kesler scores.

          1a:  Kiprusoff blow his whole load in that game and suck for the rest of the Olympics and NHL season.

    2:  Iginla with another hatty against slovakia and two against the Fins in the gold medal game.

          2a:  Iginla sprain his pinkie, thereby causing his shot some damage the rest of the NHL season, but not really injuring him.

    3:  Getzlaf to score a goal or two then quietly fade into hockey obscurity.

    4:  Demo to not get injured in the shellacking the Canadians are going to put on Slovakia

    5:  Sami Salo to not shoot so hard he sprains his ass again.  Which by the way, was probably, out of all his plethora of injuries, the oddest and funniest.

    6: Niedermayer to become so enamored with Luongo's goaltending and Salo's shot that he volunteers a pay cut to play for Vancouver.

Please, feel free to add to the wishlist.

Slightly off topic, but anyone else a Battlestar Galactica fan who watched Caprica tonight?  Turns out the Caprica Buccaneers are the Canucks...check out their locker room/stadium...only thing missing was the orca.  40 years later during the Galactica time frame their team colors changed to the red wings, unfortunately... Maybe they went on a 5 game losing streak and they had to sell the team?  Anyways, just thought it was kind of interesting.